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I started off the Tour of Utah coverage with a chat with 2008 overall winner Jeff Louder of the BMC Racing Team, and who better to close out this year’s race than the Utah-son. Louder made no bones about it, he wanted to win but it wasn’t to be as he finished third overall behind…

After slogging up and down the mountains, the sprinters finally had a chance to play at the Larry H Miller Tour of Utah, on the final stage, the 90-minute criterium in Salt Lake City. As typically happens in the four-corner crit, positioning at the last corner was key, and Australian Crit Champion Bernie Sulzberger of…

Team Type 1’s Darren Lill took the matter into his own hands at the bottom of the tough 30 km climb and flew away from a select lead group of 9 riders to take the win atop of Mt Nebo at stage 2 of the Larry H Miller Tour of Utah. Lill quickly established and…

Defending champion and Utah-native Jeff Louder of the BMC Racing Team is going into the upcoming Larry H Miller Tour of Utah as a marked man which is “a good way to be if you can deliver on that.” “I have just to do what I do, race aggressively, race my race and I am…

Two weeks after the Tour of California, Jeff Louder got the call that he would be racing at the Hell of the North, Paris-Roubaix. “I have to say it really lit a fire under me and I realized that wow I have to train really hard, I want to honor that race and try to…

Yellow jersey Jeff Louder and his Mighty Mighty BMC team battled until the end against the attacks thrown at them during the brutal final stage, the Sunset Road Race, to win the overall at the Redlands Bicycle Classic. Louder grabbed the lead after stage 1, the windy Beaumont Stage Race with a scant lead of…

BMC, BMC and more BMC. After his team controlled the 90-minute Redlands criterium, BMC’s Jackson Stewart came out of the crashed-marred final lap in fourth wheel around the last corner and outsprinted everyone for the win. Canadian Andrew Pinfold (Ouch) was second, and Stewart’s teammate Brent Bookwalter was third. “There was a bunch of crashes,…

Emerging from a late race 4-rider break, Jeff Louder (BMC) sprinted to the win at the Beaumont Road Race and to the overall lead of the Redlands Bicycle Classic. Louder crossed the line ahead of Will Routley (Jelly Belly) and Peter Stetina (Garmin-Holoweko Partners-Felt). Tom Zirbel (Bissell) was fourth and moved himself up to second…

BMC’s Jeff Louder is no stranger to breakaways, in fact he is an artist at the art of getting into a long move. Twice – so far – at the Amgen Tour of California, the 31-year old American has been in two long breaks for an estimated 178 kilometers, in the wind showing off his…

I caught up with the BMC team at the start of the 2008 Tour of Missouri stage 5, in St James where the riders were getting ready for another aggressive stage in high humidity. Mike Sayers announced his retirement earlier this year, and is racing his last big race at the Tour of Missouri. Going…

It came down to seconds in the race of truth between Blake Caldwell (Garmin-Chipotle) and Jeff Louder (BMC). The yellow jersey has been worn by a Garmin rider since the first stage with the Jason Donald victory and then switched to Caldwell’s shoulders after the second stage. Louder put in a big attack to win…

Jeff Louder (BMC) triumphant on his home turf Utah native Jeff Louder (BMC) triumphed on the Queen Stage at the Tour of Utah, in front of an appreciative and supportive crowd. It was man against man in the final climb on the brutal 98-mile (159 km) stage and Louder came out on top, and…

The contenders duked it out in the final climb of the Queen stage at the Tour of Utah. Before the stage, 13 riders were separated by 38 seconds in the general classification but after slogging it over 14,778 feet (4,504 m) of climbing over a 98-mile (159 km) road race, the race now comes down…

For over a week, the BMC Racing Team lived and trained at altitude in the Utah Mountains, preparing themselves for the challenging stages they will face in the 2008 Tour of Utah. I caught up with Utah native and resident Jeff Louder and his teammate, and sea-level dweller Ian McKissick prior to stage 2 to…